December 2018 Events

Bi-monthly meeting on 12/8 in the Meeting Hall at Emma Prusch Farm Regional Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00 pm. Come early for chatting and snacking.

We have an interesting program this month. Long time member Katie Wong will be speaking about “Medicinal Benefits of a Few Fruiting and Flowering Plants – A Chinese Perspective.”

We will also have our first White Elephant Plant Exchange. If you’d like to participate, bring in a plant you really don’t want or need (you know you have 1 or 100!) We will pick numbers from the bowl and you get whatever plant matches, whether you like it or not (no complaining allowed!) You are free to trade with other members after the meeting. We look forward to seeing you!

 

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October 2018 Events

October 13, 1pm

Bi-monthly meeting in the Meeting Hall at Emma Prusch Farm Regional Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00 pm. Come early for chatting and snacking. Our speaker will be Andy Marinai, who will be talking about peaches!

June 2018 Events

June 9, 2018: Bi-monthly meeting at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00. Come early for chatting and snacking. We will have tasting of an exciting new fruit to this area, called Myrica Rubra. Our speaker will be Yunfei Chen, who will also present at the Festival of Fruit in July.

April 2018 Events

April 14, 2018: Bi-monthly meeting at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00. Come early for chatting and snacking. We will be hosting a greenwood scion exchange. This will be an opportunity to purchase certified clean citrus budwood for grafting your trees. Budwood will be $1.00 per stick. Bring your single bills! Please do not bring any citrus wood from home!! Due to the dangerous HLB disease that is threatening citrus in California, we will use only safe wood from the Citrus Clonal Protection Program.

We will also have an update on the planning for the Festival of Fruit coming in July. Check out the FOF page for more information!!

February 2018 Events

February 10, 2018: Bi-monthly meeting at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00. Come early for chatting and snacking.

We will do a hands-on workshop on starting those cuttings you picked up at the scion exchange! Supplies will be available for doing one cutting each. Get tips from members who have been consistently successful in rooting. Bring your cutting, and a tall narrow container of some sort. A “recycled” water bottle with the narrow mouth cut off should work, with holes punched in the bottom.

We will also be having a citrus tasting. Do not bring citrus from home for this!! Fruit will be coming from Lindcove.

January 2018 Events

January 13, 2018: Annual Scion Exchange at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose. Open to the public from 11:00 to 3:00. There is no charge for this event, but we happily accept donations! Great selection of scions for many unusual varieties of stone fruits, and pome fruits. Cuttings for rooting of figs, grapes, mulberries and pomegranates. Also classes on grafting, and sale of supplies for grafting and training trees. Current state members admitted at 10:00. Proof of membership required for early admittance.

December 2017 Events

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December 9, 2017 : Bi-monthly meeting at Emma Prusch Park in San Jose. Open to all. Meeting starts at 1:00. Come early for chatting and snacking. Topic will be on feijoa with Mark Albert. If you have some feijoa fruit or some feijoa treats to share, please bring them!